Tami Smith Keenan has seen it all as court reporter

8:45 PM,
Aug. 25, 2013

Tami Smith Keenan works in the courtroom of Circuit Judge James Kingsley.

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Tami Smith Keenan spends her work days in the front row and always takes notes.

A court reporter working for Calhoun County Circuit Judge James Kingsley, Keenan, 54, of Battle Creek, has finished her one-year term as president of the 19,000 member National Court Reporters Association.

"It's my hope that in some small way I've helped to make the NCRA a little bit better, and if so, I didn't do it by myself. It couldn't have happened without all of us sharing the journey," she said in a speech last month at the association's annual convention. "The journey is what I've learned to appreciate; that ...